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'''Luigi Alamanni''' (sometimes spelt '''Alemanni''') ([[1495]]-[[1556]]), Italian poet and statesman, was born in [[Florence]]. He was regarded as a prolific and versatile poet, and is credited with introducing the [[epigram]] into [[Italian poetry]].

His father was a devoted adherent of the [[Medici]] party, but Luigi, smarting under a supposed injustice, joined with others in an unsuccessful conspiracy against [[Giulio de'Medici]], afterwards [[Pope Clement VII]]. He was obliged in consequence to take refuge in [[Venice]], and, on the accession of Clement, to flee to France. When Florence shook off the papal yoke in 1527, Alamanni returned,